KQCA (channel 58) is a television station licensed to Stockton, California, United States, serving the Sacramento area as a dual affiliate of The CW and MyNetworkTV.
The two stations share studios on Television Circle off D Street in downtown Sacramento; KQCA's transmitter is located in Walnut Grove, California.
[4] It originally operated as an independent station and aired classic television series from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, as well as some daytime programs that were preempted by KCRA-TV and KXTV (channel 10).
[6] In 1993, GE Capital began shopping KSCH-TV for sale; in one potential proposal, both KSCH and Koplar Communications-owned KRBK (channel 31, now KMAX-TV) would have been sold to one buyer, who would have been able to sell off one of the stations to a noncompetitive entity.
With the move of the Raiders to Las Vegas in 2020, the station shifted to being an affiliate of the Los Angeles Chargers preseason network the next year.
[15] As part of a larger groupwide six-station renewal between Hearst and The CW agreed to on August 1, 2023, KQCA was named as that network's new Sacramento affiliate the following month, replacing KMAX-TV.
[1] KQCA had already carried CW Sports programming earlier in the year airing LIV Golf coverage, which KMAX-TV deferred.
[8] Prior to affiliating with MyNetworkTV in 2006, the KQCA newscast was produced out of a secondary set within KCRA-KQCA's Television Circle studios.
[19] This was replaced in 2002 with a simulcast of the Armstrong & Getty Show radio program;[20] this ended five years later, when KQCA restored a morning newscast from KCRA.
On September 22, 2014, the KQCA 10 p.m. newscast was extended from thirty minutes to a full hour, putting it in direct competition with KTXL's and KOVR's already established 10 p.m.